>That alone makes me believe getting only $1 is nothing but a publicity stunt: a x00.000 salary should be only a rounding error to the returns of a fortune between 5 and 10 billion.
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>Most of our founding fathers were wealthy. They took unpaid time off from their real occupations in order to serve the country. This was back in the day when there was no such thing as a career politician. Why has this become such a bad thing?

It is not a bad thing. But as politics will have an effect on the returns of current investments, being open about the structure is better than forcing others to rely on guesswork to reach a conclusion if an officeholder is creating windfall profits for himself or not.

In my POV Trump gets high marks for trying for a running start, not so high ones on workmanship (unless shoddy workmanship was meant as bargaining overshoot, which is probable). Most of his actions WERE part of his platform, although I'd have preferred Glass-Steagall to be in place before tinkering with Dodd-Frank, as this could result in creating another bail-out-scenario after Wall Street has syphoned off part of liquidity.

Seems he promises early hints on tax changes - wonder if BTA will be part of it, even if I have not yet formed an opinion about it. If in current deficit situation he just does a Reagan-encore lowering of rates hoping for a trickle down without structure changes, I will be as disappointed as I was with the possible "explanation" of heaving additional dues on mexican imports to pay for the wall this early in the game.